the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;
Moses gave them nothing but what God commanded him, nothing more or less, he was faithful as a servant to both God and Israel, standing between them as their messenger. The sabbath came first in his charge because it outranks even the tabernacle work: no stroke of labor on the seventh day, not one, for that holy rest belongs to God alone.
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Commenting on Exodus 35:1-19
The table and his staves, and all his vessels,.... The table of shewbread, and all things appertaining to it: and the shewbread; which is mentioned for the sake of the table, and to show what was intended, and the use of it; for otherwise the shewbread was not yet to be made, nor by the artificers here called together; and is to be interpreted of...